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Tribeca 2008 Recap

May 5, 2008 – 12:22 pm

The good, the bad, and the inexplicable from ten days at the Tribeca Film Festival.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, Tribeca 2008 | Comments (1)

Tribeca Lets Right One In: Trade Roughage 05/02/08

May 2, 2008 – 9:47 am

Swedish vampire buzz magnet Let The Right One In took the top narrative prize at the Tribeca Film Festival last night. Shane Meadows’ Somers Town walked away with consolation acting prizes for its two young stars, and the extremely narratively confused My Marlon and Brando inexplicably won the Best New Narrative Filmmaker award. More [...]

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Tribeca 2008: Somers Town

April 28, 2008 – 3:12 pm

I saw six films at Tribeca this weekend, and five of them were completely blown off the map by Somers Town, Shane Meadows’ practically perfect follow-up to his 2007 triumph, This is England. England was one of my favorite films of last year, but its political/historical aims, admittedly, occasionally overwhelmed Meadows’ more subtle, character-based observations. [...]

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Tribeca 2008 Lineup

March 11, 2008 – 2:05 pm

We take this brief break from our wall-to-wall SXSW coverage to link to the competition line-up for 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, currently posted at indieWIRE. As you know, Baby Mama will open the festival; according to The Reeler, Speed Racer will close it. Here’s a look at a few titles of interest in between:
Shane Meadows’ [...]

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A Shane Meadows Slideshow

March 3, 2008 – 12:44 pm

A preview of the THIS IS ENGLAND director’s next feature.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Foreign Films, Video | Comments (1)